Medieval English families on the internet: C

Callaway

Callaway History (Bruce Callaway)
[formerly at http://www.callaway.com.au/history.htm;
not available, 2 February 2003; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from October 2001]
Paper from the Callaway Family Association Journal (1995)
on 16th-century Callaways of Hampshire etc

Carminow

Carpenter

Carpenter-Charpenter-Carpentier-Charpentier (Bruce Carpenter, Tezukayama University)
[not available, 3 February 2008; see the Internet Archive's
copy of this page,
from January 2007]
Detailed notes and discussion of medieval Carpenters, mainly 13th-15th centuries, London and elsewhere;
includes a discussion of the unfounded descent of Carpenter from the crusader Guillaume De Melun,
nicknamed "le Carpentier", claimed by the genealogist J. Hatten Carpenter

Champagne

Eudes de Champagne (Pat Patterson)Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

al Chapel

Eudo al Chapel (Pat Patterson)Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Chasteleyn

Chasteleyn (Joe Cochoit)Article on the Le Chasteleyn family of Suffolk and Somerset, 12th to 14th centuries.

Chaworth

Chaworth Line (Homer Beers James/Paul McBride)
Narrative pedigree, 12th-13th centuries;
this material, based on older secondary sources, should be treated with caution

Chester

Women
and Inheritance in Norman England: The Case of Geva Ridel
(Judith A. Green, Queen's University of Belfast; in Prosopon, issue 12)
(Prosopon,
Journal of the Prosopography Centre, University of Oxford)
Discussion of Geva, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester (d.1101),
and wife of Geoffrey Ridel, and her possible relationship with Robert de Boucy; in PDF format

Clavell

The English Branch of Clavell (Carlos E. Clavell)Dorset, 11th century and later; extract from History of Dorset and Kimmeridge (Dorset County Council).

Clopton

The Clopton Family (Clopton Family Association)
[not available, 21 March 2010; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from March 2008]
Biographies of Suffolk Cloptons, 11th century and later

Coggeshall

The Coggeshall Family Genealogy [not available, 15 December 2013] (Bob Coggeshall)
Includes a biography of Sir John de Coggeshall (1301-1361), notes on the origin of the name, critical discussions of
the Coggeshall pedigree, from the 11th century, and other material

Colchester

Colchester Family History
(Thirzah Brown)
Detailed account of the Colchester family of Barking, Suffolk,
15th century and later, compiled from The Colchester Family History, by Giles Colchester (2003)

Conant

Conant
[formerly at http://www.nvsn.com/lrichard/conant.htm#conant;
not available, 27/07/2001; see the Internet Archive's
copy of this page,
from July 2001] (Lonnie Richardson)
Narrative pedigree, 16th century, Devon

Cope

Cope (David Blackwell)
[not available, 14 October 2008; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page]
Northamptonshire etc, 14th-16th centuries; extract from The American Ancestors
of Oratio Dyer Clark and of his wife Laura Ann King
by J.E. Salisbury and G.C. Martin (1917)

Cornwall

The
Cornwall Family (Robert Battle)
Notes and extracts from records relating to two men named Richard de Cornwall,
the elder an illegitimate son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall (d.1272), and the younger
possibly his son. Blomefield, the Norfolk historian, claimed that Sir John Howard,
ancestor of the earls of Norfolk, married Joan, a daughter of the elder Richard

Cornwallis

Cottle

Cotel Coat of Arms (Mark Cottle)
[formerly at http://www.scioto.org/CottleCountry/cotelcoatofarms.html; not available, 3 December 2005; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from June 2004]
Brief notes on West-Country Coteles/Cotheles, 12th-14th centuries

Coudray

The Coudray Family
(David Nash Ford, Royal Berkshire History)
Extract from Mary Sharp and W. O. Clinton, A Record of the Parish of Padworth (1911),
concerning the Coudrays of Padworth, Berkshire, 13th century and later

Courcy

Richard de Courci (Pat Patterson)Biography, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Courtenay

The Courtenay Family History
(Brent Southgate)
[formerly at http://www.webcom.com/scourt/brent.htm;
not available, 30 March 2003; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from June 2002]
Narrative history, covering mainly the 14th-16th centuries

Some Descendants of Athon Courtenay (Dorothy C. Saunders)
[formerly at http://pages.prodigy.com/SPJH00A/athon.htm; not available, 11 April 2006; see the Internet Archive's
copy
of this page, from February 2005]
A pedigree with biographical notes; caution is called for, as the information comes from a variety of secondary sources,
some of doubtful reliability (11th century onwards)

Crispin

William Crispin (Pat Patterson)Biographies, from J.R.Planché's The Conqueror and His Companions (1874); to be used with caution, as indicated by the transcriber

Crossman

The Crossman Society (Andi MacDonald) [not available, 25 November 2009; see the Internet Archive's copy of this page, from April 2004]
Work in progress to collect references to all occurrences of the surname,
including medieval Crossman families in Cornwall and Devon

Cruwys

Cruwys One-Name Study (Debbie Kennett)Details of a one-name study of the surname, with links to some early-modern material.